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Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [Archaic] And I astonied fell and could not pray. Mrs. Browning.

In its etymological signification, the science of the stars; among the ancients, synonymous with astronomy; subsequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects.

Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.

ly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder. No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses. Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III.

r faculty of attending. They say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. Shak.

Witness; testimony; attestation. [R.] The attest of eyes and ears. Shak.

The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.

A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.

The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).

A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.

Testimony; witness. "And on that high authority had believed." Milton.

Without an author; without authority; anonymous.

one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

sition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.

A balcony. [Obs.] Pepys.

A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).

row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.